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I IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. PAUPERS. Mr. MACLEAN wished to know of the Noble Lord, in re ference to a correspondence which had taken place between the gurdians of a certain union (we could not hear the name) and the Poor Law Commissioners, respecting the permission required by paupers to go to the parish church on Sundays, whether the Commissioners had the power by the Act to pre vent those persons whom poverty had driven to take refuge in the workhouse from attending divine worship in the parish church? Lord J. RUSSELL had not seen the, correspondence al luded to by the Hon. Member, nor did he recollect the exact terms of the Act on that point. He should make inquiry, how ever on the subject. Mr. MACLEAN gave notice that he would, therefore, re new the inquiry on another occasion. 'The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER trusted that the House would allow the resolution which he had to submit to a committee of ways and means on the subject of the alteration in the sugar duties, to take precedence of the either Orders which stood on the paper for that night. He was aware that it was by no means usual for the Government to ask Wednesday from the House; het the late season of the year, and, more than all, the public convenience, required an early discussion of the subject he had to introduce to it, The Right !lon. Gentleman then moved that the House re solve itself into a Committee of Wnys and Moans. After a few words from Mr. French, Mr. Goulburn, and the Chan seller of the Exchequer, Sir R. PEEL wished to know whether en that slay, the 22d of June, the time had not arrived et which it was neces sary to settle what Bills could be carried through, and what Bills would not he brought on this session of Parliament, with a view of excluding the latter from the Order-book of the House. He eould take one case in point—the Stamp Duties Bill, for Instance. He did not, of course, mean to say that it would not pass; but he thought it very improbable that all the subjects which it purported to embrace meld be thoroughly dealt with this session. Now, what ht should suggest was, that the Right Hon. Gentleman would take one or two branches of the subject, and Pe'Stpone the rest until the tlekt session. The CHANCFJs;LOR of the. KiThEQUER entirely acquiesced in the goner tam- and spirit of the Right Hon. Baronet's observations. As far as he was concerned he should readily exclude from the paper all Bills which were not likely to ts- s ss this session of Parliament. Ile did not, how ever,v, agr ee with the Right H on. Baronet that the Stamp un'.'ies Bill was one of them. He had been in daily confers knee with the parties respecting the disputed points in it, and he had the satisfaction to state that they were now re duced to such a small number, and were, moreover, of such littl e importance in themselves, that he had strong reasons to hop e and believe in the possibility of the consolidation he aimed at being effected this session. He should, however, in other respects most willingly act upon the hint of the Right Hon. Gentleman, and readily exclude from the Order-Book any Bill_ in his charge not likely to pass in the present session of P•srliament. - sir. CA YLE Y was one of those who had charge of a Bill, and 110, therefore, thought that Wednesday should not to ttsked for by the Government. Mr. \VAKLEY also had charge of a Bill; and as the pro- Position of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was likely to create discussion, he did not think he would be in discharge of his duty to his constituents, if he gave way. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the sugar duties were annual duties, and expired on the 25th. Hon. Gentlemen would, therefore, perceive that an immediate discussion on them was of the greatest importance. Mr. HAWES did not rise for the purpose of opposing any 'obstacles to the progress of the public business, but to express his sense of the hardship of being obliged to give way to the Government. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Government intended to press forward public business on the W ednesdays, to the exclusion of that in charge of Hon. Mem bers unconnected with the Government, he hoped, at least, that they would say so at once and without. 11..Titation. - • upon the police to bring before him any person, whom could perceive guilty of this contempt of the CiOaft. Silence was immediately observed in the Court, but a similar expression of feeling tool; place on the result being made known to those who were assembled outside. The trial terminated at 20 minutes before 12 o'clock' 110 USE OF COM111'„;;Nrs JUNE 22. The SPEAKER took thr z;hairshortly before 4 o'clock. 'fir. S~IAI lAN Mr. Crafcr resented papers from the Treasury. CRAWVORD presented a petition Certain boat-owners near Dublin, Against the Dublin and Drogheda Railway I3ill. On the motion of Me. Mark Phillips, Recs' and Price's Naturalization Bills were read a first, and ordered to be r,• ad second time th-morro,v. MIi'iTtOPOLITAN SUSPENSION BRIDGE. Mr. HUME presented a petition from the inhabitants of St. John, Westminster, in favour of the Metropolitan Suspen sion Bridge Bill. Mr. TOOKE presented a petition against the 8.11 from the inhabitants of Milbank. The Hon. Member then rose to move that the further consideration of the Report on the Bill should •be proceeded with that day six months. He did so on the ground that the Standing Orders had not been complied with, with respeOt to Road Bills, which he contended the present 4111 W 1 4.3, and not a Bridge Bill. 4 .1 . r. SHEPHERD supported the motion. Mr. TENNYSON D'E YNCOURT supported the further consideration of the report, as there were no compul sory clauses in the Bill. Mr. TOOKE submitted that there were compulsory clauses in the Bill. Mr. HAWES thought the Bill was a most irregular one, and ought to be re-committed. Mr, HUME said it was true there were great irregu larities in the Bill, but those irregularities had been occa aioned by the Honourable Member himself, for the Committee had unanimously agreed that the preamble of the Bill had Imett proved. The only objection to the Bill proceeded from the Vauxhall-bridge Company. Captlthi PECHELL was sure that no Bill had come under faiitt circumstances for the consideration of the House than the present Bill did. Mr. WARBURTON supported the Bill. Mr. Alderman WOOD also supported the Bill. Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House di vided; when the numb ers were — For the original motion lO9 For the amendment 3O Majority for the original motion, for the -- further consideration of the Report 79 BRIBING VOTERS. Mr. 'GULLY begged to call the attention of the House to a subject that had occurred some time since, with respect to the challenge thrown out by the Hon. Member for Dublin to the Hon. and Learned Member for Bradford. He accused the Hon. Member of having paid 201. for a vote ; and stated, at that time, that he was very much mistaken if he could not prove it. He (Mr. Gully) was in the House at the time, and heard the pre sent Member for Kilkenny make the assertion. The SPEAKER inquired whether the Hon. Member in tended to conclude with a motion ? Mr. GULLY said his object was to lay a complaint before the House. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to read ik letter which he had received from one of his Consti tuents, and one from Mr. Hardy, in which the Honourable Member admitted that the election for Pontefract cost him 5,0004, and that he had paid the head-money, although against his conscience, and that there were persons of this class who took the head-money, and who should be ashamed of themselves for so doing; and yet when Mr. O'Connell stated that the Hon. Member had bribed upon that occasion, the Hon. Member for Bradford characterised the assertion as false and calumnious. The SPEAKER again put it to the Hon. Member whe ther he intended to put any specific motion ? - Mr. GULLY then moved that the letterof Mr. Hardy be taken into consideration by the House. Dr. BALD WIN seconded the motion. Mr. HARDY defended his conduct, and said he had ex plained all the transactions connected with this affair during the discussion on the Carlow election, brought forward by the Hon. Member for Greenwich. He denied the charge then, and stated that it was false and calumnious, and he stated so still. The expenses on that occasion were very heavy, there being a petition against him, and having a great many witnesses to examine, but he altogether denied that he had been guilty of bribery ; and he courted investigation, either in a court of justice or before a Committee of that House.---( Hear, hear.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL put it to the House to say whether this discussion should be allowed to go on ? Mr. HUME said there was a substantive question before the House, which could not be got rid of in the way suggested by the Noble Lord. The letter was signed " John Hardy," and purported to be the signature of the Honourable Mem ber for Bradford.—( Hear, hear, hear.) That l e tt er state d that the Hon. M em b er felt himself bound in honor to pay the electors of Pontefract who voted for him, what was called head-money. Now what was this but bribery?—( Hear.) He should now move that that letter be printed. Mr. GULLY said in reply, had he been guilty of bribery he would consider himself unworthy of a seat in that House. Mr. ROBINSON thought it would be beneath the dignity of that House to print the letter. , Mr. SHEIL said it was quite clear that 5,0001. had been expended on the election. Mr. HARDY would now put two questions—What was head-money, and what was the amount of it ?—( Hear.) Mr. SHE IL—Will it be said, head-money is not bribery? The Hon. Gentleman has been accusing others, and has pro mised to legislate on the subject of bribery. Will he put in a clause to explain what head-money is ? The Hon. Member was prompt in attacking, but very slow in defence. The House then divided— For printing the letter Against it Majority against LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The Sheriffs of London presented a petition from the Cor poration of London, praying the House not to accede to the Lords' amendments to the Irish Municipal Bill. HEAD MONEY. Mr. HUME gave notice of a motion for Wednesday next, that any Honourable Member of that House giving his assent to the pay men t o f " H ead-money, " was to a deemed guilty of a gross breach of the privileges of the Commons of England.—( Cheers. ) In reply to a question of Sir J. GRAHAM, Lord J. RUSSELL, who was very imperfectly heard, was understood to say that the Registration of Voters Bill would be brought forward on Friday next, and the clauses would in the meantime be printed. 'TREVOR wished that the Durham Court of Pleas Bill should be permitted to pass through Committee proforma for the purpose of being altered. If his proposition were ac ceded to he should oppose no obstaHe itt thti way 8f the Rissiii Hon. Gentler:tat - I'S nefstidiit 11AWEd notice thatthe t time • next any atten.pt Was made by the Government to appropriate Wednesday to themselves he should take the sense of the House on it. Mr. TIIORNELE Y presented a petitioa on the subject of the sugar duties. Mr. AGL lONBY had charge of a Bill which brooked no delay, especially as the Assizes were close at hand. Ho meant the Murderers' Execution Bill. If, therefore, he should give way on the present occasion lie claimed the right in 're turn of bringing it in at any reasonable hour of the night after twelve o'clock. Mr. WA KL Y had charge of a Bill—the Parish Vestries Bill—which was the first on a list of thirty-six orders. Ile should not be doing justice to his constituents if he gave way. If the Government concurred in this Bill and permitted it to go through a second reading, he would sit down at once ; otherwise he should not recede. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did net anticipate any extended discussion on the subject of his reso lutions. Sir R. PEEL suggested that the best mode for the Chan cellor of the Exchequer to adopt would be to move his reso lution and have it printed, and then name a day fur its dis cussion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would have no hesitation in acceding to the suggestion of the Right Hon. Baronet under ordinary circumstances, but the present was not so. If he were not allowed to explain the nature of his resolution, and the object which he proposed to accomplish by it, the great commercial interests out of doors would be thrown into confusion. If he were permitted to bring in his resolution and explain it, his object would be accomplished. If a debate were necessary it could be taken on the second reading of the Bill. It would suit him perfectly if he were enabled to state what his intentions were; and by that means he would be able to accommodate himself to the - desire of the House in regard to fixing the day on which the second read ing and the discussion should be taken. But if he acceded to the Right lion. Baronet's suggestion, his object would b e in nowise furth ere d. A d a y wou ld be lost at a period when a minute was valuable; and for want of the accompanying ex planation the public would be exposed to the danger of delay, and the mercantile interests to the possibility of misconstruing the resolutions. He was quite aware that nothing could pre vent Hon. Members from bringing forward their respective Orders if they chose; but he hoped they would not do so, as it would throw a great difficulty in the way of the public service. Mr. WAKLEY was very sorry that he could not give way to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the present occa sion. Hon. Members near him said that if his order were to be postponed, their orders would altogether be passed over. Mr. HUM E— Leave them to themselves.--( Laughter. ) The SPEAKER then put the question. .Mr. WA KLEY could not consent to give way. Mr. HUME would entreat of his Hon. Friend the Member for Finsbury to allow the important subject about to be intro duced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to take precedence of his Bill. Mr. WAKLEY would do so if the Chancellor of the Ex chequer fixed ten o'clock for his (Mr. Wakley's) Bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was sure the subject would not last half that time. The Speaker then left the chair. WAYS AND MEANS—SUGAR DUTIES. The House resolved itself into Committee of Ways and Means. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that in 1834, when the Sugar duties were moved by his Noble Friend Lord Spencer, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was suggested by an Hon. Gentleman, Member for one of the largest commercial constituencies in the kingdom, that it was an injustice to continue the inequality of duties on East and West India Sugars, and urged by him that, from that time, the inequality should cease, and the assimilation com mence. Lord Spencer on that occasion stated, in reply to the Hon. Gentleman's proposition, that it would not be wise at that moment to change the proportion of duties with regard to East and West India Sugars which then exised, because it would have the effect of disturbing the great measure of Slave Emancipation passed the preceding year. He further stated that he was quite ready to admit the Hon. Gentleman's proposition that, as regarded the discriminating duty, the principle could be defended on no just or tenable grounds. The Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth then delivered his opinions in a speech which contained the fullest and most admirable development of the principles ne cessary to be kept in sight and applied to the question. He stated, very prudently, in his (the Chancellor of the Exche quer's) mind, that he was not by any means insensible of the crisis in the West Indies at that period ; and concluded by saying that on that ground it was alone defensible. The prin ciple was one which, as had been rightly stated by the Right Hon. Baronet, could not be defended between two countries at amity with each other, still less between two parts of the British dominions, and two portions of his Majesty's subjects. He hoped that it would never be said of that House that strict justice was denied to the British subject, which foreign States were entitled to demand. These few powerful sentences had been quoted by him, because they brought forward in the strongest point of view the principle on which the resolution which he should propose to the Committee was founded, and spared him the necessity of weaker explanation. But there was another speech of great importance also, delivered on this oc casion, which it would be unpardonable in him not to refer to: he meant the speech of his Noble Friend the Member for North Lancashire, then the representative of the Colonial Department in the Government. His Noble Friend on that occasion had stated, that he thought the inclination of Parlia ment, and the desire of the public were in favour of the question, and he said that the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet, and the explanation of the Noble Lord (Spencer) might be taken by the parties interested as the best notice pos sible of the intentions of the Government and the Legislature. In the course of the last Parliament, he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) took occasion to refer to the same question, and to put it on the same understanding as it had been put in the preceding Parliament. He had now the strong facts in his favour that two years ago Parliament was disposed to con sider and settle the question, and that the consideration and settlement of it had only been deferred last year for reasons and on grounds applicable to that period, but not at all to the present. Assuming, then, that all were of agreement with him in the necessity of the equalization, and th e j ust i ce o f t h e principle on whi c h it was based, . he should proceed to state the mode by which his proposition to effect it would be brought into operation. There were only two modes by which it could be carried out : the first involved the question as to whether the equalization should take place immediately; the second, as to whether it should take place only by de grees, and be accomplished in a considerable space of time. The West Indians wiabed the latter ; they craved not to be called into immediate competition with a powerful rival, but to have time to prepare themselves for the reverse which they might chance to have in the struggle. They desired that the reduction of the duty on East India sugars should take place by a settled per tentage, decreasing Yearly, until it had ultimately reached the lowest point ; for they said, otherwise we may be overwhel.ned in the market. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) was willing to admit that with much plausibility there was some reason in their ob jection ; but, after the fullest consideration which lie was ca pable of giving the subject—after looking at it in every light possible, he thought they were not sufficient. His determine tion was, that fur the interest of all parties, it was necessary that the alteration should be immediate.—( Hear, hear.) From the best information which he had received, that of gentlemen long resident in India, commercially and agriculturally, lie was convinced that without an extended growth of sugar in those colonies, no great quantity could be brought into the market, at least no such quantity as materially to affect those already in possession of it. The material of which East India Sugar was made, the flour, was of a perishable nature ; it could not be kept for any length of time without danger of spoiling and risk of total loss, Neither could a large stock of any kind of commodity be kept on hand for any time by the growers in In. ilia, where the interest of money was so high, on the specula lation of a change in an English Act of Parliament. The 'practice in India, according to his information and belief, sene ! thet the manufacturer of Sugar always sent round to the grower of the raw material, and purchased the small stock each might have on hand.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Ail these things tended to prove that no competition of the nature urged could be reasonably feared by the colonists of the West Indies. The cultivation of sugar in the East Indies should necessarily be the result of the application of British capital and British skill —amore, It should, to compete with the West Indies in the manner which seemed to bo feared, be the ap plication of both to the manufacture of improved sugar. All this was the work of time; and it could only operate year after year, and by !low degrees. Thus the effect which was , ovglit to be produced by a protection not of parchment would be produced by natural means; and therefore the necessity of legislation to effect it was clearly at an end. It was on these grounds he considered it would be useless to propose a ssradu ated reduction. The West Indies had nothing to fear from an immediate alteration, and nothing to gain from a graduated one. The first and most obvious protection to which the West Indians were entitled, was a regulation that the sugar intro duced into this country from the East should be required to be necompanied by a certificate of origin, a regulation which it appeared to him was likely to prove as effectual in the East as in the West Indies. But he did not stop here. He should call upon those districts which exported sugar not to import sugar also.—( Hear, hear.) They should not be an impor ting and an exporting district at the same time. It would not be fair to allow a province in India to receive from foreign countries a supply of sugar for her osn consumption, and to import to England or elsewhere that grown within the province.—( Hear.) The West Indians were entitled to be guarded against this. It was but placing the East on the same policy with the West. There were, however, some per sons he believed who thought that the restriction against im porting foreign sugar should apply not merely to the sugar exporting provinces, but to the whole Continent of India. Now such a proposition was only to be stated to carry its re futation on the face of it. It reminded him of an observation in an author, probably well known to the House, the author of " Peter Plymley's Letters"—" Brother Abraham, brother Abrah am , whatever you hear to the contrary, I do assure you that Ireland is larger than the Isle of Wight." So he could assure those persons that, whatever they heard to the contrary, flindosta n was much larger than any sugr growing island. What he proposed then was, that in those districts of India where sugar should be exporteqr for this country, the im portation of foreign sugar should be prohibited, but that the free importation of foreigu sugar into other districts of India would be allowed, and to this he was happy to state that those gentlemen who were most eager for the equalization of the duties were, from a conviction of filE ; SON, LONDON, TiitlßShAt iiffiE 1843 g its justice, prepared to assent, and this was all that the West Indies were entitled to obtain. There was one su'a jAct More t 4 whicH, he syisjlP I to 01. tlie attention of ,the ti ! the drawback, as he believed iie nt,hrt Call it, on the exportation. He did not consider the present state o' the law on this subject to be by any moans satisfactory. 11 believed that it entailed a very great loss on this country, and that the whole of that question required revision ; but he did not mean, on the present occasion, or in the present Bill, to make any change, though he ought to state that the matter had been under the serious consideration of his Majesty's Go. vernment, and that if it was his fortune to fill the office which he had now the honour of holding in the next session of Par liament he should certainly call the attention of the Legisla ture to the subject.—( Hear.) The high discriminatory duty now levied had a tendency to induce the importation of the highest descriptions of foreign sugar only ; whereas if the discriminatory duty were put an end to there would be sugars of various qualities introduced; and he thought it just and right that they should have the full experience of what those qualities were before they considered the question of draw back. Hon. Gentlemen would see by the resolutions he pro posed, and by the Bill to be founded upon them, that the Act would extend only to sugars which might be introduced from India under it in consequence of its provisions. He would conclude by moving the resolution of which he had given no tice :—" That all discriminating duties on sugar shall cease, and that the duties on sugar should be placed on an equalized footing, according to the provisions of a Bill to be hereafter brought before Parliament."—( Loud cheering.) Mr. G 0 ULB URN had reason to complain of his Right Hon. Friend, for having postponed -this important matter to so late a period of the session. Agreeing as he did, with his Right Hon. Friend in the general principle of the measure, he could not help expressing his fears, not at what mi g ht be the effect of f ree compet i t i on, if t h e compet i t i on could really be made free, and placed upon a proper footing between the two Indies, East and West, but at what might be the moral effect (a point not at all adverted to) of an arrangement of this . kind coming to the knowledge of the planters at a moment when the great experiment of slave emancipation was in the course execution in the West Indies. He feared for the consequences of alarming those who entertained, he believed, exaggerated fears of what might be the results of that measure. Mr. HUME expressed his gratitude to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the enlightened measure which he had just proposed —a measure which would afford great delight to the nations of Hindostan, from a large number of whom he had presented a petition a few evenings since. It wee an act of justice, which had, indeed, been long delayed. There was one point, however, in which he had differed from the scheme. He saw no reason why foreign sugar should not be permitted to be imported into most districts which exported their own sugar, because he thought it would be to the advantage of the consumer, and to the interests of the consumer he looked, in the first place. The resolutions of the Right Hon. Gentle man in this respect he thought too astringent. Still he would not on that account throw any difficulties in the way of the Bill. Mr. E W ART joined his Hon. Friend the Member for Mid dlesex in thanking the Chancellor of the Exchequer for this wise and just measure. He thought the West India interest had no right to complain, for the protection given to them by the Bill was, in his opinion, sufficiently strong. He hailed the general measure as one of justice and wisdom, and promot ing an enlightened spirit of free commerce. He hoped that Government would also take off the duty on pepper, and place rum made in the East Indies on the same footing as that made in the West. Indeed this seemed as a natural corollary of re ducing the duty on sugar and encouraging the cultivation of the sugar-cane. The article of cotton was likely to become a very important article of cultivation in the East Indies. Mr. O'CONNEL L did not apprehend any evil resulting from the excited feelings of the West India planters at this step, because it was, in point of fact, one which they had long expected, and of which they had full notice. It was to pur chase the equalization of the duties that the planters received the 20,000,0001. He congratulated the Chancellor of the Exchequer on bringing forward this great measure; it afforded an additional proof of the anxiety of the Government to do what was right. Mr. P. STEWART admitted that they had a right to ex pect that at a period not remote this alteration would have been made, but there were circumstances still affecting the West Indies which rendered it a question of considerable im portance as to the peried when such a measure should com mence. The West India planters were restricted in their supply of labour, and were saddled with the expense of the total cost of that limited supply, which would not be the case at the expiration of the apprenticeship system. What he and many others understood was that it would be applied before long, but that it would be worked out not by a sudden, but by a graduated process. He certainly was personally of opinion that the duties ought to be equalized. He wished to ask the Right Hon. Chancellor of the Exchequer two questions, in or der that there might be no mistake, as, unless, the matter were clearly explained, it was more than probable that some such apprehension would arise. First, it was said that with regard to the stuff of East India sugar now here, this prin ciple was not to apply ; but the principle ought not in fair ness to apply to any produce or sugar of India now coming home even under certificates of origin.—( Hear, hear, hear.) This should be distinctly understood in order to allay misapprehension, if it should arise ; and it should be also dis tinctly understood and provided for that India was not to be an exporting and importing country at the same moment. Now, there was another point. The West Indies were subject to cer tain restrictions, which amounted to a positive prohibition of commercial intercourse with the United States. Now he begged to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman if he was prepared to restore that communication direct and uninterrupted as before?—( Hear, hear.) Waiting for the answer of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer to these points, he had nothing more to say than that this arrangement, if carried fairly and justly into effect, would be, in his opinion, productive of the great cst advantages to the East Indies, and would be an act of jus tice to our colonists generally. Lord W. BENTINCK could state there would be no diffi culty in procuring certificates of origin, according to the plan proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. P. THOMSON was glad to find that they would have the valuable support of the Hon. Member for Lancaster. For himself he would give it his most cordial support, for he looked upon it as an act of justice, and he must say justice tardily rendered.—( Hear, hear.) He anticipated the most beneficial consequences from the proposed change of system. The question was one of consumption between the produce of both colonies, and the principle of the proposed alteration would just have the effect of putting the West Indians on a fair foot ing with respect to others, and placing them in a condition to receive, under the new circumstances, in which they have been placed by other laws, a fair equivalent for the pro duce which the mother country consumed. His Hon. Friend had said that they must look to the general interests of the West India colonies, and not listen to the arguments in fa vour of this Bill, which, he asserted, would interfere with it. But what were th e facts ? The only grounds that the West Indians had of complaint, appeared to rest on the fact, that they were obliged to pay higher for lumber and provisions (staves, flour, &c.) which they received from the mother country, br her North American colonies, than they could obtain them from the United States for, and were thereby entitled to a reciprocal consideration. However, he must remind the House, and his Hon. Friend, that the Bill of 1831 had settled all those subjects of complaint with especial reference to their peculiar position between the mother country and the United States, and the interests of the colonists themselves. The provisions of the Bill now com plained of adjusted in a great measure, at the particular re quest of the West Indians, because it was ccessidered that it was most unwise to leave them dependent on the United States for any articles of prime necessity, and which, in case of a war, would unnecessarily lead to the great distress of these colonies. This view of the case was not a mere theory. They had the previous experience of five or six years of embarrass ment to the British West Indies, arising out of a traffic with the United States, in which they bad been engaged, and which that country had interrupted, thinking that our colonies were entirely dependent on them, and, in fact, commercially in their power. An Hon. Friend of his had particularly com plained of the inequality that existed with respect to our co lonial duties, and he ( Mr. Thomson) had requested him to go through the tariff with him, and point out any items he thought objectionable. They had done so together, and the only points on which they could not agree were those of sugar and coffee. However, he would still be happy to consider the whole co lonial question, with reference to its general merits, and he trusted the House would find him not unwilling to make any alteration that might, on full consideration, be found advan tageous to the empire at large—not, however, this session, but the next. The Hon. Member for Liverpool had called his attention to the duty on pepper. He agreed with him that the present arrangement was a bad one. It had been suffered to continue as an experiment, but as it had not worked well he hoped it would be removed. Mr. W. CRAWFORD wished to mention that there was but one port in the East Indies from which sugar came to us —that of Calcutta. There was no import of sugar into that port (it would be like sending coals to Newcastle), and it would, therefore, be easy to manage so that the authorities at Calcutta could preclude the possibility of imposition on that subject. Mr. GOU LB URN complained of the turn the subject had taken. He thought it had been entered on with the under standing that no discussion would take place to-night. Mr. P. THOMSON explained. After a few words from Mr. G. F. Young, Dr. Bowring, Mr. Pease, Mr. P. Howard, and Mr. Thornely, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that °his intention in bringing forward the present measure was simply to place the produce of the West Indies on an equality with the East. Ho had studiously taken care to protect the West Indian planter, and while doing justice to the East In dian to avoid doing injustice to the West. Mr. BARING said that there were only three ports in the East Indies whence shipments of sugar took place for Eng land, Calcutta, and—(The noise that prevailed in the House prevented us from hearing the conclusion of the Hon. Mem ber's speech.) The resolutions were then agreed to. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that the„other Orders of the Day be now disposed of. PARISH VESTRIES BILL. Mr. WAKLEY then rose to present several petitions on the system of voting in parish vestries, and praying for reform. —(The confusion in the House prevented our hearing the particulars.) The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to sup port the second reading of the Bill, and said that until 1818 the present system was unknown in our parochial proceedings. Up to that time there was a perfect wantonness of the manage ment of the parochial funds. Since 1818, however, there had existed, i❑ fact, a system of close vestry. But if that acted on before 1818 was bad, it was a thousand times worse since that period. A case bad occurred in his own neighbourhood lately which would illustrate the injustice. Suppose that twenty persons living in a parish had 1504 a year each, amounting to 3,000/. a year ; and suppose that one hundred other persons had 30/. a year each, amounting to the same sum ; those twenty persons could at present give 120 votes, llffridre4 per ,spy cried at the same gross sum coulJ only give one hundred ,of a parish could neutralise four-firths, their equals in point of pro perty.—(Hear.) The House could not sanction such a state of legislation without sanctioning all sorts of injustice. He now moved that the Bill be read a second time. Lord J. RUSSELL could not agree to this Bill proceed iag any further in the present state of the public business. The ground on which he was not disposed to agree to it at present was, that he conceived its operation would be injurious to the extension of the Poor Law Amendment Bill, which was a most valuable Act, and had been carried most success fully into operation in many places. Mr. HUME was in favor of the measure proposed by hip Hon. Friend the Member for Finsbury, but if the Noble * Lord considered that it would tend to lessen the efficiency of the Poor Law Amendment Bill, he should advise his Hon. Friend to strike out altogether that part of the Bill which related to the union of parishes. He hoped if such an amendment were made, that the Noble Lord would not object to the Bill, but allow it to be read a second time. Mr. PEASE moved that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. On the question being put— Mr. O'CONNELL said that the objections urged against the Bill by the Noble Lord were intelligible enough, which was not the case with those advanced by the Hon. Member for Durham, who must be influenced by some other motive, in his opposition to the Bill, than he thought fit to explain. He hoped the Bill would be allowed to go into Committee. Mr. PEASE explained. Mr. PR YME considered that property ought always to have its due weight and influence in parochial government, and therefore he objected to this 13111. Mr. WARD could not agree with the Hon. Member who had just sat down, that property ought to have an undue pre ponderance in parochial affairs. Mr. HARDY agreed that property ought to have its due influence, but it ought never to have more ; and under such circumstances he was favourable to the Bill now proposed, and thought that it ought to be allowed to go into Committee. Mr. PLUMPTRE spoke against the Bill. Dr. BOWRING would support the proposition of his Hon. Friend the Member for Finsbury, because it recognised the rights of individuals as opposed to property. Mr. FORSTER objected to the Bill. After a few words from Mr. Howard, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Benett, and Mr. Potter, Mr. WAKLEY had no objection to adopt the sugges tion of his Hon. Friend the Member for Middlesex, but if the Noble Lord should not consent to the measure with the alteration proposed he should certainly press hit motion to a division. Mr. E. ROSS should vote against the Bill. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading For the amendment 6O Majority against the Bill .~ MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (SCOTLAND BILL. Mr. R. STEWART rose to move that this Bill be now committed. Mr. GILLON said the Bill was founded on the report of the Commissioners, and would be an improvement on the Re form Bill. The general feeling in Scotland was favourable to the Bill. Dr. BOWRING thought it would be better to print! the Bill, in order to give the Scotch people an opportunity of ex amining it. Mr. C. FE RGUSSON thought a change was called for. The union of rich and poor towns, as in the case of Dumfries and Maxwell town, and subjecting both to the same charges, was very objectionable. General SHARPE was understood to speak to the same effect. Captain GORDON instanced the cases of Old and New Aberdeen, which were injuriously cemented. Each town should be allowed to manage its own affairs. Mr. STE WART would move that the Bill be printed, and should be committed that day fortnight. BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS BILL. The House went into Committee on this Bill. Clauses up to 8 were agreed to without remark. On clause 8, Mr. HUME should propose that the fact of paying or re ceiving head money should be rendered penal. He should'say that receivini , head money or tail money should be p un i s h e d . Mr. H. G RATTAN supported the proposition. After a few words from Mr. O'CONNELL, Mr. BERNAL thought there were some misapprehensions with respect to this clause. Formerly head money was not considered illegal ; but this clause, framed in the spirit of the Reform Bill, would make it so. • Mr. PRAED said that the Courts of Law had never held, nor was it consistent with common sense that they should hold, that money given and received subsequent to an election, with out proof of a corrupt intent in the parties giving and receiv ing, should be considered illeg al. Mr. WASON made some allusions to the borough of Yar mouth and the town of Bradford, but the nature of which we could not collect, except that he appealed to the Hon. Mem ber for Bradford (Mr. Hardy), whether the giving 51. notes to voters subsequent to an el 9tion was not gross bribery in a moral sense. Mr. PRAED did not doubt but the Hon. Member for Ipswich was a better judge of such cases than he was, as the pursuer must always be better acquainted than the defendant. A desultory conversation then ensued upon the point of law, Mr. WA SON supported his view by a decision of Chief Justice Holroyd, in a bribery case. Mr. PRAED was not intimately acquainted with the sub ject, not having had occasion to make researches for his own defence, or in the criminatiou of others. —( Hear.) He trusted, however, that the Committee would allow him to say a few words with reference to a matter which was personal to him self. A petition, it might be remembered by most Hon. Members, had been presented last session, not against him, but making statements with respect to the borough of Yar mouth, and praying for the vote by ballot. On a motion of the Hon. Member for Kilmarnock for the payment of the expenses of witnesses, he had hoped that he should have the the opportunity of making his statement; but, unfortunately for him, that noticefras withdrawn. The Hon. Member for Hastings had also given notice of a motion for the disfran chisement of the burgesses of the borough of Yarmouth, which was also withdrawn, so that again he lo s t th e o pp or t un i ty of making his statement. The House had ordered a pro secution before it had heard evidence—( Hear, hear)--and, at the expense of the public, the parties had been put to an onerous and grievous expense; the witnesses in the meanwhile had been kept in the pay and employment of the Whig and Radical interest, who had caused the proceed ing. Now, with all their disadvantages, and the case conducted by his Majesty's Attorney-General, it was blown out of Court amid the execrations of the Jury, the execra tions of the audience, and the condemnation of the judge.— ( Hear, hear.) would not therefore call God Almighty to witness, as some Hon. Members might, and afterwards find that he had been guilty of a grievous lapse of recollection ; but would content himself by stating that, upon his honour as a gentleman, there was not one of those statements but was gross, abominably, and wickedly false.—( Cheers. ) After some desultory conversation on the truth of the alle gations of the petition alluded to between Mr. Wason and Mr. Praed, Mr. A. Trevor and Dr. Nicholl respectively rose to order, when the debate on the clause before the Committee was resumed by Mr. WA K L EY, who proposed as an amendment that the word " corrupt" should be expunged from the 2d and 38th lines of the clause. After a few words from Dr. Nicholl, Mr. Hardy, Mr. Pryme, and Sergeant Wilde, the Committee divided, when here appeared-- For the Amendment 46 Against it Majority -15 Mr. 13 ROTH ERTON made several attempts to move that the Chairman report progress ; but the Chairman appeared not to hear him, and the discussion on the clause proceeded. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned, at a Quarter past One. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Kent entertained a large and distinguished party at dinner yesterday. The Landgravine of Hesse Homburg honoured the Earl and Countess of Kinnoul with her company at dinner last even ing, in Green-street. The Prince of Orange dined with the Earl and Countess Cawdor last evening in South A udley-strect. The hereditary Prince, and Prince Alexander, of the Ne therlands, left town yesterday morning for Cambridge. Prince Earnest of Hesse Philippstlial, and Prince Charles of Solms, dined with the Earl and Countess Brovrnlow, in Bel grave-square last evening. A deputation of the Jamaica Company, including Earl Harewood, Viscount St. Vincent, Lord Seaford, Sir Alexan der Grant, Mr. Horace Twiss, Mr. Miller, Mr. Burge, and Mr. Elliot, had an interview with Lord Glenclg yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Colonel Thompson, M. P., Mr. Hutt, M.P., Mr. Pryme, M. P., and a deputation from Hull, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing -street. The French Ambassador and the Prussian Minister trans acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Herbert and Mr. Larpent had interviews with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Lord Stanley had a dinner party last evening in Grosvenor square. Among the company were the Archbishop of York and Miss Vernon Harcourt, the Duke and Duchess of Rich mond, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Marquis of Anglesey, Earl and Lady Georgina Grey, the Earl of Ripon, Earl and Countess Tankerville, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord Elphinstone, Sir Matthew White Ridley, and Mr. Cowper. The Marquis Camden bad a dinner party on Tuesday even ing in Arlington -street. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday and heard the appeal " Smyth v. Smyth," Arches' Court ; Sir John Nieholl, Judge of the Admiralty Court, Sir Herbert Jenncr, Judge of the Prerogative Court, Sir J. Bernard Bo sanquet, and the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy, were present. The Marquis of Hertford gave a splendid ball on Monday night, at his delightful:villa in the Rvgent's-park. Cards of ins nation, guests were present, including their Royal Highnesses the 1 ,200 in num b er , %vere i ssue d, an d upwar d s o f 1,000 Princess Augusta, Prince of Orange and his sons, Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippithal, Prince of Oldenburg, Prince Charles of Solrn::, Dukes of Wellington, Beaufort, and Rex burgh, and all the elite of the fashionable world, P OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSITRANC I E ticiMPANIES, &c.&c. &c. ,000/. 01 per cent. l)ittn Lock Fund Stock l2/. 10s. Oh. 700 361. Stafford and Worcester l4('/. sh. 500 11/. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 300 8/. Stourbridge ... 1,017 1/. 10s. Stratford.on-Av:ti ...Average 791. Os. 6d. Bh. 533 13/. Swansea lOW. sh. 3,70 . 2 11. Severn and Wye and Railway -Av 35/. sh. 2,1101 so. 32/. 19s. Trent and Mersey, } share lOW. sh. 8,144 ~v..... ... Thames and Medway...Aver. 191. ss. Bd. sh. 1,010,11./ . Warwick and Birmingham lOOl. sh 1,000401.5 '- Ova 1‘,5,. Warwick and Napton RIM sh. 0,000 3/. las Worcester and Birmingliam...A v. 78/.Bi. sh. 5,003 2* Wilts and Berks .. Average 071. 10s. Bd. sh. 800 (34 Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 128 ..... Wisbeach 905 I/. Wey and Arun llO/. sh. DOCKS. 2,001 & } ~ Jp. c. Commercial 100/. sh. I,oo)ish t 95,6641. 4 per cent. East India Stock 3,239,:110i/. 50s. p.ct. London Stock Ditto Bonds ,340,000/. 5L per ct. West India Stock 2.•.:() I 3/. Os. 4d. Bristol Average 147/. 19s. sh. 08,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts .... .152.752 3 p r cent. St. Katharine Stock 500,001 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds . 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Shoreham Harbour ........ Deptford Pier 0 01. sh. 3/. pd BRIDGES. „fi '() IL Hammersmith 5Ol. sh. 7,231 Southwark, 01st Av. 03/. 2s. Bd. sh. 1,703 I/. Iss. Ditto, New, of 7i per cent. 5O/. sh. 5,000 ..... .... Waterloo lO O l. sh. 5,000 1/. 2s. Ditto, Old Annuities of Si. 6O/. pd 5,000 I Os. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401, pd O 0,000!. 5/. per cent. Ditto Bonds 6,031 IL Vauxhall AV 7rsge 70/. 10s. 3d. sh. AS URANCE COMPAS:ES. 3,000 3/ 10s Albion 500/. sh. b O l pd 5 0 ,00) { 5 r a ft n ' r d c s c 3 n . L i Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 10/. pd 50,000 It per cent. Ditto, Marine 103/. sh. 51. pd 24,000 g 1 per sh. Atlas 501. sh. 51. pd 1,200 }sh. 4/. Birmingham Fire 0 504 sh. 55/. lid 20,011 4/ per cent. British Fire ,....2501. sh. 501. pd 12.000 6/. per cent. British Commercial SOL sb. 5/. pd 5,000 51. percent. Clerical, Medical,&c. Life, lOU. sh. 12/10s pd 4,000 .2/ 10s County 100/. sh. 101. pd 10,000 __ ss. _ Eagle 5O/. sh. 51. pd 2.50 . . 1 - 5 per cent./ Ec onom i c Land 301 1)&3 Life lOOOl. sh, 2501. pd 375 2,271 51/. per cent European Life r'o/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New COL sh. 21. pd I/. 12s. ,000,000/. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 160 20,000 11. Guardian ..1001. sh. 201. pd 371 (Tire 3 p et, ‘°°°° LLife 8 t 1 ti° P e .. -P • _ ._ _ 301 sh. N. pd 6 2,400 5l. 75.6 d. lmperial Fire 5001 sh. 50/. pd 121 7,500 9s. Imperial Life 1064 sh. 101. pd ) 0 13,458 108.6d.'per sh. Indemnity Marine ' 1.04 sh. 54 pd 17 2,020 3/ lOs Rout Fire 50/. sh. all pd 92 3l Ditto Life 79 10, 0 00 16s. Law Life 100/. sh. 101. pd 271 3,900 1.000 ... London, Ship "5!. sh. 1.24 10s. pd 15 30,01)0 U. per cent. Palladium Life 50/. sh. 24 pd 217 s 6d 250,00) Is. 6d. Protettor Fire "01. sh. 2/. pd 111Ss Od 2,500 14 Provident Life 100,000 ss. Rock Life .0/. sh. 21. pd 61 5511,220. 51. per ceut. Royal Exchange Stock... 202 Sun 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOO/. sh. 54 pd 50,001 4 per cent. United Kingdom I.ife 2/. pd JOINT STOCK BANKS 5,000 Aivtrala.ia 4O/. sh. 40/. pd 10,00 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 5 ll. sh. 10/. pd 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. Si. pd 18,000 2percent. London and Westminster...loo/ sh. 15/. pd 3,000 25,1 NM 6 per cent. Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 30,000 71 per cent. Manchester and Liverpool} 1001.8 h. Jo , pd Discount 20,000 6 per cent. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/ pd 20,010 8 per cent. Provincial Bank of I reland 100/. sh. 251. pd 20, I 0 5 per cent. National Bank of Ireland SI. sh. 141. ixl 10,000 ...... ... National Provincial Eng. „JON. sh. 25/. pd 10,000 10 per rent. Gloucestershire 5O/..h. 73/. pd 6,000 ...... ... Hampshire 50/. sh 5/. pd GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 501 1/ Isis Bath 2O/. sh. In/. pd 5,000 61. per cent. British 404 sh. 161. pd ~ ~,,,, 1 - 54percent.1 ".""" /and BA. ss. j Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pd 814 5/ lOs Birmingham 501. sh. 1,250 21 0a Bristol 2O. sh. 1,500 Brighton 2Ol. sb. 7:i01 Ditt.i, New 2O/. sh. VV. jai 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton t;eneral 201 sh. all pd 4,000 31. Continental Cansolidated IOW. 5111.1x1 1,01)0 10/. City of London 'oo/. sh. all pd I, l 'oo 61. Ditto, New 4,000 4/, 1 01 s. Equitable lOO/. sh. 60/. pd 404 pd 10, 4 00 5/. per cent. Imperial 5Ol. sh. 800 Si. per cent. Isle of Thanet 25/. sh. '2O/. pd 2,3541 6/. per cent. , ndependent lO/. sh. al pd 1,5 0 0 71 per cent. Leeds "0/ sh. 20/.lxl 9,0 , 0 3/ per cent. Phenix 50/. sh. 39/. pd 1,000 41. per cent. Itateliff 100/. sh. 60/. pd 4,0 0 South Metropolitan 5 - 1. sh. 13/. pd 8,200 5/. per cent. United General .. 5 ,1. sh. 451. pd 210 5/. per cent. Warwick 5 ,1. sh. 400 81. per cent Wakefield 12,0'0 31. Westminster Chartered ...... ..., 5O /. s h . 6,001 12 Ditto, New 5l I. sh, 101. pd KO Yarmouth lid. sh. 181, pd WATER WORKS. 4,800 Birmingham 25!. sh. 651 p 4 1,433 54 East London lOO4 sh. 1,500 2/ lOs Grind Junction ....Average 41/ 13s. 441. sh. 2,000 2/. Kent . _ .. 100!. sh. 3'B 104 Liverpool Bootle 2204 sh. 1,500 21 Ios Now River London Bridge Water Annuities 6,48 ii 11. ' Manchester and Salford 1,000 4 per cent. S.suth London 1001. sh. 5,3 0 0 01. West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. Pd. sh. 4360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop ..... lOO/. sh. IRON RAILWAYS. 2,500 Aylesbury 2Ol. sh. U. ' 7..500 ..... .... Birmingham, Bristol, and I haws Juncti pd. on ' ...... ... Bristol and Exeter • - :5 661 Bolton and Leigh !0,00.1 Calcutta and Saugur 2,000 Clarence lOO/. ,h. 1001. Si 2.500 19s. Forest of Dean 5O/. pd 30,0e3 ..... «.. Grand Junction 100/. sh. 40/. p.l 30, 1 ".d1 .... ..... Great Western lOOl oh. 20/. pi 2,0 , 110 ... ..... liartlepool lO 1. sh. 100/. pd 2,100 Hull and "cloy 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 2,1110 Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 1,500 ..., Leicester and Swannington ....5111. sh. ,111x1 5,100 9 per cent. Liverpool and Mancliester...loo/. sh. lOW. ial Ditto Quarter Shares 70 11.1/. Loughborough 10,00 i ......... London and Bright°. lO 1. sh. 51 pd 45, 1 00 Ditto ditto (Gibbs' ...201 sh l/ pl Ditto ditto (Rennie) London and Blackwall 5OO/ sh 31 lxi .. Londo i and Dover xlll. h. 1/, pd 30,000 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 'ill. S. 201 . 1. 1 25,000 London and Birmingham 100!. sh. 60/. pd 20, 0 00 ...... ... London and Southampton.... 01. sh. 11. IA ......... London and Croydon 5/, pl 20,000 Northern and Eastern l O ,l. sh. :31. id 12,50)) North Midland 100!. sh. 51. pd 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 3/. pd I, l 'lo 61. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 5.010 ~ Tha-' es Haven 5Ol. O. 2/. 10s. pd 6,000 York and North Midland 5,...' sh. 1/. pd MINES. Albion Copper 5/. sh. 01 pd A lten l'i/. sh 10/. Ws k .l .'1 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.... 100/. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription 0 .54 pd .7', OM Dot .nos 150/. sh all pd - ,0 .00 0 31. s. Brazilian Imp iss. 5!. pm ....,351. sh. '2ll pti (1,0 0 Macanbas & Cocaes United....2s/. sh 2 - 11. pd Ditto St. John Oct Rey 20!. sh. Fit. lxi 10,0"0 Bob vJr Copper Company .20/. sh. 211/. ixl 10,0(10 .... ..... Ditto Scrip t 7. p 4 20,0 'I 1/. 10s. British Iron 501. sh. 5 11 / lxi 6,000 British Copper 5/. sh. W. pd 000 Cats Branca.... 'll. pd Candonga .. Copiapo 2O/. sh 12)1 pd (7olumlnan, iss. N. pin. English 121 Its. pi General Mining A ssociation...2o/ sh. 15/. 1.1 ..a") Mexican Company 10' , /. sh 51!1. pi 2,00:1 Polheroti Consols P 1 sh 8/. pd 1,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered , Ditto Loan Notes . 1501. lxi United Mexican, iss. 2 1.0; ....10/. sh. all pi Mt o Scrip Ditto Subscript ion ',/ 1.1 Ditto New Scrip 5/ pl Union Gold, iss. al. ss. pin.... 11/. sh. Iy. lid West Cork 5111 sh 50/. pri LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1 )00 London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs sh. 500 London University 10. /. sh. all pd 7 00 King' College 1004 pd MISCELLANEOUS Australian A g ricultural....lo ll /. sh 2cii p< l Auction Mart 501. e h. 6,0'0 British American Land Company ..• 131 . pd 110,000 6/ per cent. Canada Company 100/. sh. 20/ pi 200,000 51 per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 15,000 1/. percent. General Steam Navigation ...15/. h. 13/. pi It/, per 'Tilt. Hutson's Bay Stock 11 London Coin. Sale Roolll ......... Av. 751. sh New BrunswiA Land Company ......'Si pd 2,74.1 5/. per c,nt. Reversionary InterestSoc...loo/. sh. 100/. pd 2,11(1 51. per cent. Ditto New RP/. sh. C./. pi yol s 0,1100 Van I /iymei.'s Land 1001. sh. 171. 14 2, 0 00 8,000 4,041 in,nno sjo) st . 'lOOO :30,000 10,0 , 0 10s. 1,0 , 0 11. 2,000 41 31 12f 1(1 24(1 21 24,1 371 4 p:n lin 25j 132 j 77f 8 13j LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, MAY, 20, 1836. BANKS. 1,500,00 v. 6/ p. et. Ban% of 'coti:ulif ‘ , ,1/. 6s Sd..h. all ixt 2011. 2,000,0111. 5,1 p ct. Royal of Scotl an d 1004 sh. all 1:il 170/ 500,01('1. ti p. et. British Linen Company lOW. sh. :11 pd 240/. 3.0000141. 0!. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl, St). 100/ pd ISN. 5,000,10/. sp. ct. National 2.00 0 0 1 N.. 4/. p. ct. Glasgow U n i on 25' , /. sh. 50/ 141 6,01 ,. 4,000,11 01. 4p. ct. Western of S co tl an d * 4 ool. sh 30/. pd 371 . INSURANCE COMPANIES '25 .000. h 61 p. et. Scottish Union 2O/. sh. 1/. pd Pcs ,500 sp. et. H ercules lOOl. sh. 101. id 1311(4 * 1 01 ,000 sp. ct. Ins urance C o. of Scotland ....10/. . h. all p d 7„ .",. `" 50,000 6p. ct. No r th B r i t i sh ,', 200/. sh. 1 01 .1. 1 1,000 sp. et. Caledoni an Fi re IBOI s h. 10/.1.1 1502 21 5,000 1, p. et. Edinburgh Life 100 L 6h. in/. lid 14/ 10. 10;1,000 . ___ u s, 4,810 ....... in. and Glas ‘.. lln - . - C;na 1...501. sh. ail pd TU. Ditto Allocated ............... . /. ,h..a1l pd (i 54 5,40) 5 per cent. Edinb.".loint Stock sh all Ixl 3741 Carron Iron Company ...... :?50/. sh. all pd 4501 . 2, 04 0,1 in t 15 per cent. Shotts Iron FOUIRICTV ......... 50/.sh. 31. pd 301. °gill. 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass....at/. sh. 16/. pd sm . 4,400 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas "3/.6h. all pd 61 . 1/, 4,• 17, 0 I per cent. Glasgow G.:s 750 6 per cent. Leith Coal Gas sh. all pd 37. ICO 5 per cent Edinburgh and Dalkeith Rath. 661. 3;000 5,1 per cent Equitable LOP') alt. 81. pd lel. LONDON, TUESDAI', AINE 21. Number Dividend Price of per , CANALS. . per - SO:UP:. . A wpm], Paid. :7 41re 1,760 61 pet c;;11. Astt(ln and Oldham....Avtrage 97/. I. sb. 162 1,:82 6/. Ashby.itl.lo:`, 4 ooeli ......... Average 1131. ,h. 65 1,2ei0 r Basingstoke '. ' .... rs 1 ,0 1 5 5/. Brecknocit and Ahergaveri4.;.:.,,,lto , e h . po 4,0001ih. 10/. 10s. Birmingham, 1-16th share IF I: t 8 209 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct.,..ll 0/. sh. all pd MI 600 . Bridgewater and Taunton ....lOU sh. all pd 64 400 N. Chelmer and Blackwater IOO/. sh. 102 500 421. Coventry 100/. sh. 775 4,5;6 Croydon Average 311.25. 10d. sh. 3 2,0611 31. 10s. Dudley lOO/. sh. 78 600 • 61. Derby 100/. sh. 120 2 1 ,0" O . Danube and Mayne 411. 13s. 4d. 15/. pd 101 3,5751 Ellesmere and Chester Average 1331. sh. 80 '231 - 43'. Erewash 'oo/. sh. 400 1,297 23/, Forth and Clyde Average 4.0(1/.:;;,,. sh. 590 1,500 121. Grand Junction ...... ........... ~ ... (1(1. sh. 215 2, 4 4111 Grand Union 1001. sli. 25 1.521 ... Grand Surrey lOO/. it,. 100) , (1'. 4/. per cent, Ditto (optional) Loan 3,09;1 (I(2nd Western . /x1 19 6 0 13/. 128. 556. Glam Tganthire, Average cost 1721. 135, 4d. 230 1,960 Gloucester and licrbloy 1001.571, 141 J 749 Inc Grantham 150/. sh. 202 3,233 1/. lOs Huddersfield Average sil, Os. 6d. sh. 32 100 Kensington 100 sh all pd. 10 5,338 11. Kennet and Avon, Average 39/. Ss. 10d. sh. 20 2,9197 f 201. Leeds and Liverpool 515 124 Leicester llOl. sh. 149 9 7 41. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 53/. as. 78 2,4 n() 91. Monmouthshire 100/.sh. 200 . 258 9!. Melton Mowbray lOW. sh. 200 500 251. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 5 . 0 3,0:10 Macclesfield 1004 sh. all pd. 54 247 154 Neath 100/. sh. 325 1,180 32/. Oxford 100/. sh. 5811 521 2/. Oakhatn 130/. sh. 38 2,100 41. Peak Forest ..,..... .... Average about 781. [eh. 104 11,418 14s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. ed. sli. 181 5,169 tg, per cent. Rochdale ,Average 841. sh. 120 500 81. Shropshire VW. sh. 140 800 10/. Somerset Coal _ 5; 23 4} 14 4 18 15 IRELAND. In reference to the two petitions from the diocese of Xil more and Armagh ag ainst L or d M orpet h' s Ch urc h Bill, t'io Freeman says, " These productions abound, as usual, with convincing proof of the parson's acquaintance with the law, ai Ll equally copious demonstration of his thorough and pro-. found i g .6.7ance of the Go'spel. The Acts of Lord Stanley are evidently ;;?finitely more familiar t o th e i r reverences than the Acts of . ,4 . he Apostles. Money is in all their thotig,itte=--they think, ti;s7 speak of nothing but money. They are the only profession with which gain is the sole consideration. The soldier serves for honour as well as for pay ; the lawyer pleads for fame as well as for fees ; die physician loves science as well as his guznea ; but the parson has no regard for anything but pelf." PUBLIC MEETraros.—On Friday a meet* of the people of the independent County of Longford was held in the county town, to petition for the abolition of tithes, and fir the extension to Ireland of a measure of municipal reform similar to that already conceded to Scotland. two o'clock an immense concourse of persons, to the numb,lr of between 15,000 and 20,000, were collected. ORGANIZATION OF THE PEASANTRY.—A correspon dent of the (Orange) Mail writes—" Middleton, County Cork,l4th June :—A circumstance occurred in this neigh bourhood a few days ago, of what would, in other times, and under a different regime, be ludicrous enough, but it really presents a frightful state of the county at present : Mr. and Mrs. Harriet Poole, the latter the daughter of Joseph Deane Freeman, Esq., of Castlecor, a newly mar ried pair, returned to Cahirnane, the seat of Mr. Poole, on Tuesday, the 7th instant, the tenantry assembled in thousands, and drew the carriage from Middleton to Collis nane, and bonfires were lighted on the neighbouring biit.c.." The O'Connellites mistook the fires for a political move ment, and every hill, from Middleton to Watergrass-hill, Rathcormac, and as far as Cappoquin, County Wateribrd, was in a blaze. Never was a marriage in any rank of life so extensively celebrated I 1 " • REVlEW.—Saturday being the anniverszry of the glori ous .18th June, the customary inspection of troops by the Lord Lieutenant took place in the Phoenix Park, and was followed by a sham battle. This 'eplendid spectacle at tracted, as usual, immense numbers from the metropolis. TITHE WAR.—We wish it were fought hr the Court of Exchequer by only "Iwo" parsons—hut theavGyd two was a misprint in yesterday's impression for " the"—meaning, of course, that the Irish Protestant parsons generally conti nued to sue out writs of rebellion. POOR LAWS PROSECUTION.—In a letter to the Pi/cr4 enclosing twenty pounds ten shillings as the contribution to the O'Connell tribute by the parish of which Mr. Phelan is the Clergyman, the Rev. Gentleman says,—" 1 must in candor admit, that Mr. O'Connell's opposition to a legal provision for the poor of Ireland, and his apathy on that subject since he became a convert to its necessity, have had a very unfavourable influence on the collection of the tri bute in this parish, particularly for the last two or three years. The state of destitution to which so many hundreds of the poor have been reduced here, the crowds of mendi cants (owing to the system of depopulation which is here acted upon) which surround the houses, and block up the doors of the middling and industrious classes, have forced us to observe with peculiar regret that Mr. O'Connell, when pleading the cause of Ireland, did not make use of his ta lents and his influence in advocating the cause of the poor, who, above all others, stood in need of an advocate, and whose wants and privations called more loudly and more urgently for relief than any other class in society." In alluding to the sufferings of the conscientious Catholics, Mr. Phelan observes, that " there is. not a parish its this county, nor in Ireland, that has latterly suffered so n.nch as this, for tefusine to submit tamely and p ass i ve ly t o Tory domination and O range' ascendancy. The single fact that in this one parish alone upwards of fifteen hundred acres of land have been taken from Catholics and given to Protes tants (who have been almost all Orangemen), and between fifteen and sixteen hundred Catholics dispossessed (I include those at present under ejectments), affords pretty good proof of the truth of my assertion. Whoever may say the contrary, it is certain that all this has been done by way of punishing the Catholics of the parish, for asserting against the will of their landlords, their religious and political opinions, and with a view of upholding Tory influence in this county, by men who coincide in principle with the Rev. Marcus Beresford, and who have agreed to reduce to practice the Christian admonition of that minister of reli gion. The spirit of Tory persecution has had recourse to so many ways of annoying and harrassing those whom it sought to punish, that the fact I have stated, howover strong it may appear, affords but very imperfect means of judging of the extent of sufferings which the Catholic and liberal portion of our population had to endure." TITHE WAR.—In referring to a lon g list of cases sum marily disposed of by the Barons of Exchequer, among which is one of the Bishop of Ossory against the Catholic parish priest and the Protestant rector of the parish, the Dublin Evening Post has the following observation : " The attorneys will make a fortune, but it is likely that some have overshot the mark. It is a sad truth, that the chief monies collected go into their coffers. We learn that nearly four hundred bills are prepared for the next Term. Great expense has unquestionably been incurred by these preliminary steps —expenses which it is likely, we under stand, that the parties cannot easily recover from the de fendants. The mode of resistance will be changed, if the Lords do not pass the Law. Those liable under Lord Stanley's Act will pay—that is to say, fifteen per colt. upon the tithe will be recovered. The remainder is spre over a pauper population—and, we really think, that the Church will have to whistle for their arrears, notwithstand ing all the Rebellion Smiths, Bags, Prims, &c , in the Hall." CUNNEMARA.-..WC suppose the Lord Chancellor not find it a difficult matter to decide upon the case put before him by the meeting held at Clifden. Conduct more unbecoming of the magisterial office we never heard of, than that of the Messrs. Darcy, who attached their names to the scandalous and inflammatory document, published by the Society calling itself " the Cunnemara Christian Committee." The mingled insolence and fana ticism displayed in that production exceed any thing that we have heard, even from the lips of the great O'Mulligan himself. It is impossible for charity itself to put any laudable construction upon such language.---Freeman. EMIGRATION.—From a statement m an Ulster paper, it appears that the number of emigrants increases yearly, and that during the last year 6,514 persons have left that dis trict for America. MEETING OF ORANGEMEN !—We learn that a meeting of the Masters of Orange Lodges, hi the county of Ar magh, took place, on Monday last, at Rich-hill ; and that, as our informant states, " the resolution of the said Master►; was, no surrender!'" We beg to call the attention of the Government to this movement. It appears, though Cie Grand Lodge has been broken up, that the Society is not yet dissolved ; but that the leaders are determined to ►cork the danerous old machinery. Such a proceeding, at the present moment, and in that particular county, ought to excite the utmost vigilance on the part of Government. We have some other information from the same county, which we shall notice in our next.—Northern Whig. FATAL OCCURRENCE.—On Friday night last, the Bel fast and Enniskillen coach was upset, in the city of Ar magh, when the coachman, James M'Garr, was killed. No one else was seriously hurt. On Sunday evening last, as a farmer named John Power, o f 1 , ;111vale, near Coolnamuck, was sitting in his house,.a man na i nt ;:i Ward came in behind him and struck him on the head wit a stave, which fractured his skull. " The green-eyed monite:" is the cause of this home blow, for it appears that the partie.: lived together, and Ward being a first cousin of Power's wife, considered himself privileged to make that freedom which Power thought it his duty to reprimand, for which hint Ward rt:.nrted in the above as ssssin-►ike manner, leaving his victim with no hopes of re covery. Ward has absconded. A silver chalice was stolen out of Rosetea chapel on Friday night. ARCHBISHOP CROLLY.—The Catholic clergy of the T) rope district have met ar.d adopted resolutions, in con sequence of the attack made in the House of Lords . by Lord Lyndhurst upon the Archbishop. " It is now clearly established, says the Dublin Evening Post, " that so far from having any ground whatever for complaint, Mr. Mulholland was treated with a degree of kindness and lenity which prates the extreme unwilling ness of the venerable Prelate who presides over the arch diocese to resort to any e xtreme measure, even under cir cumstances of extreme provocation. Flow very different was the conduct pursued towards a most worthy and ffs eellent Clergyman of the Established Church, the Rev. Mr. Lyons, who was absolutely driven cut of his curacy by the Ikresfords, without even a pretext for a charge against him? Never have we read a more unanswerable case than that established by Dr. Crolly. Lord Lyndhurst has utterly fltiled in the object of his manoeuvre in this matter ; but he certainly has been the unconscious and unwilling instru ment of exhibiting to th e world the admirable discipline of the Catholic Church, and the perfectly blameless conduct of the Archbishop of Armagh." EAST INDIA HOUSE.—Yesterday a half-yearly General Court of the Proprietors of India Stock was held. at the India House, for the declaration of a dividend and upon other business, Sir James Curiae, Bart., in the Chair. The Chairman acquainted the Court that the pc titions which had been agreed to by the General Court of Proprietors, praying an equalization of the duties upon East and West India sugar, had been comm it te d to the care of the Earl of Clare in the • House of Lords ; and that to the House of Commons to Lord m. Bentinek. Ace_utints f;on► Belgium state that the ►uanufacture of beet-root sugar is becoming rapidly developed there, and a -..ornpetition nith France ►nay' be expected. Six new mane. f4lcteries have just been authorised, as well as eight distilleries frwri grain and fruit, and an establishment fur rcfiaing salt,